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OF THR 


STATE COMMISIONER OF 



New York, December 23, 1852. * 

To His Excellency Leonard J. Far well, 

Governor of the State of Wisconsin . 

Sir: 

By the Bill of last Legislature, providing for the establish¬ 
ment of a Commissioner of Emigration for our State in the 
City of New York, it was made the duty of said Commissioner: 
1st. To keep office during the usual business hours; 

2d. To distribute, free of expense, to the immigrants pam¬ 
phlets in their respective languages, containing a description of 
the State; 

3d. To give the immigrants information in relation to the soil 
and climate of the State, the branches of business to be pursued 
therein and the cheapest and most expeditious route to reach the 

#ame; 

4th. To protect immigrants as far as practicable against impo¬ 
sition ; 



,5tli. To report the number of immigrants sent to the State, t3 
nationality and business; and 

6tli. To employ such assistance, as will be required. 

The said bill being approved April 17th of this year, the du 
of the office were conferred on me Mav 12th following. 

I was not unconscious of or unprepared for the difficulties ; 
enmities I would have to encounter in the City of New York, 
feeling the importance of the trust and the great advantages to 
derived from it by the State I felt gratified by the confidence 
the Chief Executive of the State, and I undertook it cheerfu 
to connect myself more directly and to the best of my abili 
with the present and future developement and well-being of i 
adopted State. Besides I had long enough known and appre< 
ted A\ isconsiirs great advantages in regard to healthy situati 
moderate temperature, richness of soil and easy access to the 1 
markets of the United States, its liberal political institutions, rid 
endowed and excellent schools, the true progressive spirit of 
American and European population and the rapid growth of f 
internal improvements, to foster the conviction, that, in dev$* 

myself wholly to the interest of the State, my exertions wo 

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prove a true blessing to all immigrants, whom I could induct 
settle there. 


Arriving in the City of Yew York on the ISth of May la 
made it my first duty, to become acquainted with the Director 
the \aiious 1 roi.ccti.ve Societies, with the Consuls of most of 
European countries, with the Mayor of the city of Yew Y 
and vim a good many 0 i iiie s’bpping-houses to European pc 
supposing that their combined and favorable influence wc 
greatly promote the objects of my office. Everywhere I 
with the most cordial reception and a number of house 
excellent reputation promised to send my pamphlets and infer 
ti°n about my office to various districts in Europe; and mam 
the Con .mi. s offered, to direct all people asking for information 
gaicLng the \\ estern States to me. I often had reason to con 




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ite myself on the favorable results produced by my conversations 
th the said gentlemen. I went also to several of the forwarding 
t cuirs, to hud out by those best acquainted with emigrant-busi- 
f ss, combined with my own observation, the most suitable locali- 
for an office and to inquire about the routes preferred by them 

! ' their passengers, with the reasons therefor, as also about the 
ice to be paid for passage and luggage from here to the several 
rtson the western shore of Lake Michigan. 

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A couple of days after the arrival of the first pamphlets from 
adison, June 3d, I opened my office at 110 Greenwich street, 

* my business the most suitable locality in the city. I went at 
>rk immediately to procure a translation of the pamphlet, pre- 
red under the direction of your Excellency, in the German, 
orwegian and Dutch languages, and got in possession of 20.000 
pies in German June 16th, 5,000inNorwegian June 26th, and 
GOO in Dutch July 2d. In the beginning I had the assistance 
a Norwegian ; June 9th I engaged an intelligent and well ed- 
ztad German, and as soon as matters’ were well arranged I en- 
ced two others, one English and one German, the German emi- 
ationto the West and especially to Wisconsin being the most 
nsiderable. 


From conversations at the office of 


the Commissioners 


of Emi- 


ation for New York, with the Secretary and Agent of the Ger- 
iu Protective Society, the Directors of the N. Y. & Erie and of 
e Hudson River Railroads, as also with the above mentioned 
wvarding agents. 1 found out, that the safest, quickest and cheap- 
; conveyances and now preferred by most of the immigrants, 
io are, for the great majority, disgusted with water-traveling 
:er a long and tedious trip of from five to ten weeks across the 
tlantic, are the New York and Erie and the Hudson River Rail- 
Dads ; the former of which has made the people acquainted dur- 
g the whole season with the regular fare for passengers and. 
ggage from here to the different ports on the Western shore of 








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Lake Michigan, without allowing their agents or runners to 
charge any higher price, than the one expressed on the bills. 

My great object in this city is of course, to make as many im¬ 
migrants as possible well acquainted with our State. For this 
purpose I worked by distributing the pamphlets on vessels, (sail— 
and steam—) in hotels and in taverns, mostly to the immigrants per¬ 
sonally ; by sending the same across the Atlantic for distribution 
among emigrants leaving port; by advertising in English, Ger¬ 
man and Dutch papers here and in Europe; by editorials in such 
papers; and finally, by talking personally, or by my assistants, 
to as many of the immigrants as possible, whenever an opportuni¬ 
ty offered itself. 

To protect the immigrants effectually against imposition of for¬ 
warding agents, runners and tavern-keepers, it was necessary, to 
induce as many as could be induced thereto, to visit my office be¬ 
fore making contract or buyingany ticket from whomsoever. Here 
I met with the great difficulty. Neither forwarding agents nor 
runners have any objection against Wisconsin; they are rather fa- ^ 
vorably inclined towards it, for the obvious reason, that a big pro¬ 
fit by overcharging for passage and luggage can be made only on 
travelers from here to a far distant part of the country. The ques¬ 
tion with this sort of people is never, whether Wisconsin or any 
other State has advantages not to be found in the same degree 
elsewhere; nor wdietlier the prospects for immigrants are more fa¬ 
vorable in one part of the Union or in some other, but merely how 
much more they can make out of a passage to Wisconsin, than to 
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Ac. It is plain therefore, that they 
must like Wisconsin, but they abhor all interference on my part^ 
they fear that people will get information according to the truth, 
notwithstanding I have informed several of the best of them, as a 
matter of policy, that I never would interfere in their affairs, when 
they had sold their tickets, before the people came to see mo at 
my business place. To me it is quite obvious, that most of 
those emigrant offices would be shut up within a couple of years, 



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if tlie passengers could only receive the necessary information in 
time. Warfare against my business and person consequently is la¬ 
boring for self-preservation. It was often said within hearing dis- 
* my assistants,that the State was as good as represented in the 
pamphlets and the information contained therein reliable and excel¬ 
lent, but that the people connected with the office were more danger¬ 
ous than any other in the city of New York; that I would not be able 
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to keep an office, pay several assistants, and distribute thousands 
and thousands of pamphlets gratis, without imposing upon the 
people by my friends and agents in the State of Wisconsin, where 
I divided the spoils with them; -in short, they do not oppose immi¬ 
gration to our State, but they keep the immigrants from my office, 
whenever they have a chance. 

}' There is another reason why the immigrants do not flock in 
larger numbers to an office like mine, to wit: the strong com¬ 
petition between the several railroad directions, forwarding agen¬ 
cies, &c., each of whom tries to get the advantage of the other, in 
consequence whereof it has become usual, to send the passengers 
off on their way south or west as quick as it can be done. Even 
the Direction of the N ew York and Erie Railroad, though in its own 
interest most favorably inclined towards my exertions, make the 
passengers start for their destination immediately after arrival in 
port, without stopping a single night in the city, for fear they might 
be induced to buy their tickets in some other office. For such im¬ 
migrants as are going to other states thanWisconsin, it is a benefit,be¬ 
cause they cannot gather here the desired information from any 
awfully appointed representatives of other Western States, espe¬ 
cially if they leave by tlie New York and Erie or the Hudson 
River Railroads, there being no chance left in that case for im¬ 
position by any of the numerous sets of sharpers, who go out for 
prey, nor of w r asting away valuable time in the miserable 
emigrant-holes and taverns of this city. 

A short description of the manner, in which this passenger-busi¬ 
ness is managed, may not be deemed here out of place: 

As soon as any vessel reaches the Hudson River, tlie Telegraph 




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wires bring the news to tbe city. Lots of runnel’s, stationed on 
purpose at Staten Island and at tire Battery, take immediately to 
the rowboats and board the ships, to make some contract or agree¬ 
ment with, the captain or some other officer acting for him about 
the permit, which in all probability is sold to the highest bidder, 
•without any consideration of the interest of the passengers. The 
buyer and his companions then take hold of all the passengers, 
who wish to go into the country ; shortly after a propeller comes 
alongside the vessel, riding at anchor in the middle of the stream; 
men, women and children, trunks, boxes and luggage of all sizes, 
kinds and descriptions are stowed away in the propeller, and with¬ 
in a couple of hours they are landed on some dock, where they 
are kept prisoners till the hour of departure for a part of the coun¬ 
try, it may be, of which some of them never heard before or where 
they never intended to go. Often said permit is given or sold 
by the shipping-house to some agency before or during the trip 
of the vessel across the Atlantic Ocean. The thanks of the people 
in general and especially of the immigrants are due to many of 
best shipping-houses, which give their permits regularly to the 
agents of the New York and Erie Railroad. Not seldom it hap¬ 
pens, probably from the best motives, that neither shipping-house 
nor captain wishes to interfere with the passenger business. In. 
such cases no permit is given and every body is allowed to work 
for his own interest. As matters now stand I believe it to be the 
most pernicious of all for the poor people; an army of a hundred 
or more, composed of runners, tavern-keepers, and ped ars 
come on board and every one of them takes hold of as many as 
he can get in his grasp, squeezing out of them all the money or 
profit he is able to. 

Each one of the emigrant-tavern-keepers is, there may be some 
exceptions, ally and agent of some forwarding agent and gets re¬ 
gular pay for each passenger he brings on. If such passengers 
wish or are seduced to stay in the city for some days, or if any 
vesse comes to late in town to cany them off that same nudit 
they are brought in large flocks to the favored taverns, where they 


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are immediately compelled to buy their passage tickets for the 
place ol destination ; from that moment they are carefully watched, 
for they might possibly find out, that they had been cheated, and 
bring their complaints before the Mew York Commissioners of 
Emigration, the Agent of the German Protective Society, myself, 
or some other officer or Society. 

Before T became thoroughly acquainted with that.class of people 
and the machinery of their business?,' 1 often applied to tavern- 
keepers, to induce them to send people to my office, but hardly 
one ever came on their advice and Several times T made the ex¬ 
perience, that even those, who pledged their word for doing so, 
acted right the other way bv warning the immigrants against the 
imminent dangers of my office and influence. My place of busi¬ 
ness Is right in the middle of that part of Greenwich Street, where 
the largest and most of those taverns are, the houses are not sel¬ 
dom overfilled .with people, my business is painted in large Ger¬ 
man and English characters on the wall, my office is open from 
half-past 8 A. M. till half-past 5 P. M., my assistants often went 
among the people and talked to such as wanted to go out West; 
they promised to come, hut the influence of runners and tavern- 
keepers was more powerful, than mine and t hey stayed away after 
all. 

The agent of the German Protective Society displayed some ac¬ 
tivity in sending people for information to my office,’most of them 
belonging to the more intelligent class of Society. 

Such as read English or German papers saw my advertisements 
and the favorable articles and notices of editors, recommending 
my office, and came in considerable numbers. 

T received letters asking for further information from the Mew 

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England States, the interior of Mew York, Pensvlvania, Ohio and 
from Europe, in the English, German and Dutch languages, and 
answered them all to the best of my abilities, enclosing at the same 
time a copy of the pamphlet in each of such letters. 

During the time of my residence here I have distributed over and 
above 25,000 pamphlets in the several languages, of which more 


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than 5,000 found their way to Europe, either by interposition of ship¬ 
ping-houses, private persons traveling to Europe, to bring out immi¬ 
grants for our State, or in consequence of my own correspondence 
with people living in European ports. 

The great mass of the pamphlets was distributed by myself and 
assistants on sailing vessels and steamboats to the passengers per* 
sonally, to directions of railroads and to some forwarding agents 
to people stopping in Hotels and emigrant-taverns and finally to 
all, who called at the office or who wrote for the same. 

The Hew York and Erie Railroad sent from the latter part of 
June till this date to the State of Wisconsin 5,225 emigrant pas¬ 
sengers, to Dunkirk,' partly, with destination for our State, 4,561. 
The Hudson River Railroad sent off during the same period, by 
their German Agent P. A. Loescher, to Wisconsin 2,372 passen¬ 
gers. Win. Rischrnuller, who forwarded his passengers in steam¬ 
boats under his own control by way of Troy, then by Railroad to 
Buffalo and further round the Lakes, sent off from August 1st till 
Sept. 9 to Wisconsin 456 passengers. As 1 could not persuade 
myself to favor materially his exertions, I did not get further in¬ 
formation from him. 


The most extensive business of any of the forwarding agents is 
that of Friedrich Kreuder, who keeps a little army of not less than 
sixty runners, some of whom earn very considerable w a ires. Ho 
forwards by the People’s Line of Steamers of Isaac Newton. 
Neither from him nor from any of the other agencies did I try to 
get information for the reason stated above in regard to ¥m. 
Rischrnuller. 


In my office there have been 436 persons asking for information 
and intending to leave for the State immediately, of whom the 
majority represented also their friends and families, many of them 
companies of 20, 30, or even more persons. Several persons on 
my advice went out to investigate for themselves more closely the 
condition of our State, and have enabled themselves to report in 
Europe about the plan to be pursued and about the locality for a 


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settlement. They intend to come out again next spring or sum¬ 
mer with such company as will be deemed suitable to the interest 
of the parties concerned. 

It is hardly possible to make a true estimate of the influence ex¬ 
erted by the agency in New York ; information has emanated from 
there in every direction and is now spread over a large and for 
our object the most valuable part of Europe. The emigration to 
our State, amounting many times from 1200 to 1500 a week, haa 
probably been larger in 1852 than during any former season ; still 
it would be unjust to limit the influence to what has been done al¬ 
ready. The pamphlets, editorial articles, advertisements, written 
and verbal information, given by myself and assistants, are work¬ 
ing their way and probably the effect will be felt more and strong¬ 
er in the course of 1853, than it was during last season. 

The example set by our State Government has excited already 
the emulation of other States and the Governor of Iowa recom¬ 
mends, in his late Message, the establishment of an agency like 
ours in the city of New York. We have no right to complain 
about such a plan, but we must be stimulated by it, and exert our 
best powers not to loose ground in the coming contest; we have 
the advantage of our better situation for market, of our extensive 
internal improvements, all in an excellent state of progress, of our 
healthy and invigorating climate, and we are inferior in no respect 
whatever; besides we have in our favor one season’s experience 
in N ew York ; by prosecuting in the right direction what was com¬ 
menced by the action of the last Legislature, no harm can accrue 
to us; even the competition may show our great advantages and 
materially contribute towards the advancement of our object. 
The giving up of our agency on the contrary would prove just at 
this period of a very disastrous character and the results of our 
exertions might be turned into a different channel, so as to make 
the benefits designed for Wisconsin to go to the State of Iowa. 

The larger proportion of the emigrants, who called at my office, 
were Germans, with a considerable share however in regard totho 
whole number for Americans, English, Scotch, Irish, French, Bel¬ 
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In relation to business they were scientific and ordinary far- 
ners in a large proportion; mechanics of all sorts, to wit: car- 
)entere, masons, shipbuilders, millwrights, gas factory men, miners, 
tonecutters, watchmakers, machinists, blacksmiths, tailors, shoe- 
nakers, gardiners, bakers and butchers; further merchants, school- 
nasters, musicteacliers, musicdirectors, surveyors, engineers, law¬ 
yers, physicians and ministers. 

As I have had divers calls from miners, and the mining business, 
)eing one of the most prominent sources of wealth for our State, 
t would prove probably highly beneficial, if the office of 
he Commissioner of Emigration was supplied with reliable Statis¬ 
ts about the mining-business during the last few years, so as to 
mable men of capital and wealth to judge about the probable result 
>f investments for mining purposes. r Jhe different counties of the 
State would find it equally useful and profitable to tlieir advance¬ 
ment, if they could be induced, to show up the peculiar advanta¬ 
ges for settlement thev are able to offer. 

Considering the good will of editors of newspapers and adver¬ 
ting of great value, I have advertised regularly in the Hew York 
Tribune and part of the time in the Herald ; I found myself 
however compelled to give it up for the last named paper, the ex¬ 
penses amounting to 100 per cent more, than the Tribune 
charges. I advertised further in most of the German papers 
:>f New York City, to wit: N. Y. Staatszeitung , Crimi/nalzei- 
frang, Allgemine Zeitung , Tlanddszeitung and Abcndzeitwng. Most 
of them have given commendatory articles or favorable notices of 
my office. Such articles copied on the other side of the Atlantic 
arc read by a great many people and must of course prove to be 
of considerable benefit to the State. As far as the means allow 
it, I have sent up advertisements to several, chiefly German, 
newspapers in Europe and in the first place to such, as are mostly 
read by the emigrating population, to wit: Bremer Auswando- 
ru/ngszeitung , Rudolstaedter Allgrmeine Ausw. Zeitung , Dorfzei - 
twig, Schwael)ische IRrhur, Koellnisehc Zeitung , Afanheimer Jour¬ 
nal, Augsbmger Allgemeine Zeitung and Amsterdam Handels 


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blacl. To enable the editors to judge about the degree of reliability 
of my office I sent them a translated copy of the Act of last Leg 
islature, recommendations by the State Commissioners of Emigra 
tion of New York, the Mayor of A. Y. City, the General Consu 
of the Netherlands Ac., all translated into German, as.also ; 
German copy of the pamphlet and such letters as I deemed fit, t 
induce them to write favorable notices or articles in regard to on 
State and the office in this place. 

I have tried to do fully and conscienciously everything require! 

from me by the Act of the Legislature, and I feel convinced, tlia 

I have exerted a very beneficial influence and largely promote 

the emigration to Wisconsin; I have given ail the information i 

my power, used all my influence to protect the immigrants, and 

do not hesitate to say, that the State has reaped already a riel 

harvest from the agency, which has been only since the middle c 

June effectuallv established. F refer besides to the statement 

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made above in regard to the prospects for the future. 

To further the objects of the State on a still larger scale, all 0 's 
me to make for vour consideration (lie following suggestions : 

1st. The great requsite, to get the eyes of emigrating Lump 
in all quarters more directly fixed on our State, is by giving th 
people everywhere a chance, to become acquainted with its advai 
tages. Therefore it is my conviction, that a delegate from th 
State with the necessary instructions, recommendations and i? 

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troductions should go to the principal ports and starting points i 
England, Scotland and Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Be 
giuin, France, Sweden and Norway, and perhaps Switzerland 
and that pamphlets ought to be distributed and personal inform* 
tion given there. In behalf of French, Belgian and part of th 
Swiss people the pamphlet ought to be translated into French. 

The majority of the people arriving here are in too great a burr 
to read and a great many are. by the bustle all around hardly abl 
to think. For these reasons they ought, if possible, to receive ir 
formation and advice before leaving their old homes, or at an 
rate before leaving the European port. 




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Before his arrival and during his stay in any place the delegate 
should advertise in one or two of the most extensively read jour¬ 
nals of that part of the country and make known in a suitable 
manner the opportunity offered to get information about the State 
of Wisconsin. 

In each of the principal cities a depot of pamphlets should be 
left with a trustworthy person for gratuitous distribution, after the 
delegate had left. Editors generally should be induced to give 
articles or favorable notices on the subject in their papers. 

People traveling to the West by the way of Quebec, Boston,, 
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Nc r Orleans would equally profit 
by such information, as is no ' !i nited to the city of New York 
alone. I look on such an y i „ Europe as more advantage¬ 
ous still, than the one u w gin *'ew York, especially if the 

commissioner in Europe acte . 1 . conceit with the one established 
in said city. 

To attain the double object proposed in the least expensive 
manner, I would suggest the following: 

Tlie heaviest emigration fro n Europe is going on from the 
middle of April till the later part of October. The commissioner, 
attending to his business in New York till the beginning of No¬ 
vember, could leave at that time for Europe, trusting to the most 
reliable man in his office, to provide for the less important duties 
of the winterseason during the time of his absence. The extra- 
ordinary expenses in that case would amount only to the traveling 
to, in, and from Europe, and the expenses for printing, advertising, 
postages and probably for some assistance. 

2d. The new pamphlets, which ought to be published, should, 
to get a larger influence, be endorsed by the Legislature and by 
Yourself, and contain at the same time the name of the commis- • 
sioner with the address of his place of business in the city of New 
York. 

As the information contained in the pamphlet, however con¬ 
densed and valuable, cannot be but very general in its small com¬ 
pass, I would like to draw your attention to a more extensive 





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source ot information in regard to our State. I have good reason® 
to believe, that Mr. 1. A. Lapliam, the editor of the standard work 
about our State and of our excellent State maps, would be willing 
to publish a new edition of his book, adapted to the present con¬ 
dition of the State, with all the existing improvements, and the 
various reliable projects for the future and especially with an ex¬ 
hibit of all the resources of our beautiful and rich country, now 
so much better known than seven years ago, if the State would 
assist him by a subscription of from 500 to 1000 copies or its 
equivalent in cash. Knowing the importance of such a book, I 
mentioned the subject to Mr. Lapliam at the time of my departure 
for New York and his principal objection was, the small support 
he expected in the sale of such a work from the inhabitants of the 
State. 

In regard to the pamphlets I wish further to submit, whether 
or not it would be advisable, to have the recommendation of the 
State Commissioners of N. Y., of the Mayor of N. Y. city, and 
of such other societies and consular agents of European Govern¬ 
ments, as I have gathered, printed on the cover of the same. 

3. The II. S. Government ought to be acquainted with the im¬ 
positions practised upon foreigners, coming here to live under the 
laws of the country and who consider generally, as soon as they 
have left Europe, the U. S. their second and their better Father¬ 
land I consider it not so very difficult, to devise the means, 
effectually to protect the immigrants. A memorial to Con¬ 
gress by our Legislature in relation thereto would, at any rate, 
show an honorable sympathy with our future citizens of foreign 
birth. Perhaps the U. S. Government could appoint commission¬ 
ers in the principal ports of the country for the protection of im¬ 
migrants, and if the rights of the States severally do not allow 
the interference of the General Government in such matters, it 
would probably prove highly beneficial, if the Secretary of the 
Interior would direct the attention of the State Governments in 
New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Louisiana 
to the great abuses, to which foreign immigrants are exposed by 
their being unaequainfed with the language of the country and 
with the price of transportation of passengers and luggage to the 
place of destination, belonging as they mostly do to that class of 
society, whioh even in its own country is unacquainted with travel- 


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ing. The Slate Governments duly informed from such a source 
would likely take legal and appropriate measures to protect those, 
who are so much needed to aid in the developement of the im¬ 
mense resources of this great country. To attain this desirable 
object, the following measures would be available : 

A. A large dock should be built in each of the ports where 
the immigrants usually arrive, exclusively for the use of the emi¬ 
grant vessels, and where alone the passengers and their luggage 
should he landed. 

B. ISTohe of the agents or runners should be allowed to come 
on board of any of such vessels, but they should be admitted mere- 

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3y to the dock. 

C. The captains of the,vessels should be compelled to unload, 
as is their duty, me passengers and their good.- <>n the said dock 
without any charge. 

I). On the walls of the’dock the program of each railroad— 
steamboat—and carnal boat direction •should be posted up in large 
characters-and in the languages mostly spoken or understood, by 
tiie immigrant . 

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E. Each program should exhibit a plain statement of the man 
ner of traveling by railroad, steamboat, propeller or canal boat" 
on each part of the proposed line of travel, 

E. The fare on such line and on each part of the same, for 
passengers and for luggage per 100 lb., should be stated also. 

G. At each change in the line or in the manner of traveling 
on the same, or in the price of conveyance of passengers and 
goods, it should be stated immediately on the programs, ‘and the 
said changes be submitted to the authorities in the seaports above 
alluded to for approval. 

IT. No forwarding agent should get a license, to sell tickets to 
immigrants, unless lie.showed bv his printed programs, that he 
charged a fair rate, and such of them as went beyond their own 
rates, stated on the programs, should he punished by the loss of 
their license and by a heavy tine. 

If such provisions were put in the Statute books of the States 
concerned and were rigidly enforced, I feel assured, that they 
would prove, to be a blessing to the immigrants and an honor to the 
States. 

The above report is respectfully submitted to your considera¬ 
tion. 

G. VAN STEENWLIK, 

State Commissioner of Emigration. 







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